Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 381
The year of Jianning, in the eyes of all officials, was an unprecedented prosperous age. In these years, whether it was the accumulation of the national treasury, the local political achievements, or the number of household registrations, there were unprecedented achievements. Weakness, the crazy increase in household registration has become one of the topics that officials talk about, and the local roads, water transportation channels, and official schools all show the glory of Jianning's prosperous age.

However, the Year of Jianning was also a time of many disasters.

Snow disasters, droughts, and constant locust plagues are rapidly consuming the national power of the great man and restricting the continuous prosperity of the great man. Fortunately, the emperor makes good use of people, and the officials he appoints can still deal with these disasters well. How can a strong man be a natural disaster? What can be limited?After the disaster in Jiqing, Guoyuan immediately proposed to divert water from the big river to irrigate the fields.

Regarding these matters, he discussed carefully with Zheng Xuan, Jushou and others. With the support of the granaries in the two places, the common people picked up the iron hoes and started construction under the leadership of the officials. Xing Ziang also allocated a lot of manpower , went to Jizhou for assistance, these manpower were naturally impolite barbarians brought in by Dong Zhuo from the north, Yuan Feng grimaced, and also pulled aid from the temple.

Under such circumstances, the emperor missed Wen Rengong more and more. In order to find a way to fill the vacancy in the treasury, the emperor held a court meeting.

As soon as the court meeting started, all the officials began to impeach Wang Fu. They blamed all the disasters of these years on Wang Fu, and said sadly that as long as the emperor can cook Wang Jiexin, the catastrophe will definitely not come, and the people of the Han Dynasty will also die. There is no need to suffer from disasters. The emperor has always been indifferent to such remarks. As early as the early years of Jianning, the old Taiwei was repeatedly impeached, and it was said that it was his fault that caused continuous natural disasters year after year.

After the death of the old Taiwei, wouldn't the disaster still happen?

Among the officials, only Yuan Feng did not participate. It seems that he has no extra energy to fight against Wang Fu. He suggested that the court must establish a new source of finance and increase taxes on salt, iron, tea and wine It is imperative, otherwise the national treasury will not be able to support such a heavy pressure at the same time. Most of the courtiers are opposed to Yuan Feng's remarks.

How can the pressure of the treasury be shared with the common people?It is definitely wrong to do this. They are all great sages who care about the people of the world. They cannot allow such a thing to happen. At this moment, they have become saints who worry about the country and the people, and they are madly criticizing Yuan Feng. According to them, Yuan Feng was already a traitor like Wang Fu.

Oppressing the people, exploiting the people, this kind of behavior is even worse than Wang Fu, Yuan Feng can't argue with it, the first one to attack Yuan Feng is Zhang Ji, the chief minister, Zhang Ji is the most important Jiuqing under his command , coveted his Sikong position for a long time, at this moment, he rarely caught Yuan Feng's handle, how could he have the intention of letting him go, at this time, his allies in the court also joined him, and began to abuse .

Seeing Zhang Ji's face, Yuan Feng was furious, but he didn't reprimand him.

Among the officials, Cao Song supported Yuan Feng. The Cao family has always been the most loyal ministers around the emperor, and they have always been at odds with these great sages. Cao Song mocked: "The public cares about the people, and the people are affected by disasters. Why don't you use your property to help him?"

Zhang Ji sneered, and replied: "I'll go back now, and donate all my family property. I don't keep anything. I heard that Mr. Cao's family is as rich as me?"

Seeing that the ministers were about to quarrel, the emperor forcibly suppressed their conflicts, and asked Yuan Feng if there was a better solution. Yuan Feng said helplessly: "If the emperor refuses to increase taxes, he can only subsidize In the land of three Koreas, build a wharf, and use the story of Yangzhou to inspire maritime trade"

Regarding this policy, there are still many great sages who oppose it. Zhang Ji even pointed out that Yuan Feng's actions are harming the power of the people. Such people are not worthy of being a Sangong. What, ordered the court meeting to end, under the wild attack of Zhang Ji and others, Yuan Feng's two policies failed to pass smoothly.

In addition, after the end of the court meeting, news came out from Luoyangli, informing the public of Yuan Feng's idea of ​​raising taxes, and added fuel to the equation, thinking that Yuan Feng wanted to raise agricultural tax, vehicle and vessel tax, and per capita tax. Naturally, Yuan Feng was insulted by the common people and denounced by the officials. Even the people in Jiqing who he wanted to help, after hearing these words, scolded him together.

The reaction of the scholars was the most intense. They surrounded Yuan's mansion without cursing, but just read many Confucian classics over and over again, most of which were about loving the people and benevolent government. Some Tai students also wanted to participate, but Cai Yong ordered that all Tai students who go to participate in these things will be expelled from school!
The Tai students didn't join in the fun.

Scholars gathered at the gate of Yuan Mansion, they were all attracted by people, even if the embroidered clothes envoys came, they were not afraid, they didn't insult San Gong, nor beat them, they were just studying, Zhang He What about the eagle dog?

While reading, someone suddenly opened the door and came out from the Yuan Mansion.

Seeing someone walking out, these soldiers read aloud even louder. They looked at the man walking out sarcastically. The man was extremely young, frowning, and walked up to them step by step. His eyes were cold, and he said: "You can go home!"

When a scholar heard this, he stood up suddenly, held a book in his hand, and read aloud to him. This was a bit provocative. These people were all attracted by the intentions of Zhang Ji and his allies. They wished that there would be some fight between the scholars and the members of the Yuan family. In this way, Yuan Feng would only have more troubles, and it would not do them any harm!

Seeing the scholar like this, the man turned around and returned to the mansion. The scholar saw that he had pushed back the people in the Sangong's mansion, and he felt even more proud. He cheered for his victory. The man was also excited, and turned around to look at the crowd The scholar said in his mouth: "The Master said: The tyranny is fierce."

"Shh~~~"

He still failed to say the last two words, the crossbow bolt passed through his chest quickly, he was hit by the huge force, flew up and fell among many scholars, and the scholars were frightened Standing up, they all looked at the gate of the Yuan family. The man was holding a yellow crossbow just now, and there were several soldiers standing behind him. Launch again.

The soldiers also shot their crossbows one after another, and the soldiers fell one by one. The rest roared and fled frantically around. The young man simply threw away the yellow crossbow in his hand, drew his sword, and started chasing after him. Killing, the scholars were crying loudly, howling ghosts and howling wolves, running for their lives, the young man was very calm, one sword at a time, the scholars also had a lot of resistance, but they couldn't hold out in his hands.

The elite soldiers of the Northern Army also chased and killed them. Blood flowed like rivers and corpses piled up like a mountain at the entrance of Yuan's mansion.

Yuan Shu stood in this river of blood, his eyes were cold, he wiped his sharp sword, and said in a low voice: "Father is humiliated, son can push the blade away."

"Captain."

"Follow me to Zhang Ji's mansion"

"Follow orders!!"

(End of this chapter)